situation: The method of execution is injection. The sentence is determined by a jury that decides on aggravators; a judge decides the sentence. Death row is located at Deer Lodge (Women: Warm Springs). As for the clemency process, the Governor has authority to grant clemency with nonbinding advice of Board of Pardons and Paroles.

The House Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 against House Bill 350 abolishing capital punishment. All Republicans on the panel voted to table the measure; all 8 Democrats voted to keep it alive. Members also rejected, 15-4, a bill to require indisputable DNA or video proof of a person's guilt in a capital crime before the defendant could be sentenced to death. Republican Rep. Alan Doane said he opposed the DNA bill because it required evidence to be presented at trial and would rule out the death penalty if a defendant confessed and pleaded guilty. Democratic Rep. Jasmine Krotkov said that while the DNA bill was imperfect she supported it because the death penalty isn't implemented fairly, is costly and does not deter homicide.

Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.